August 2022

THE European Commission has agreed to buy 250 million doses of Spain’s Hipra Covid-19 vaccine despite the European Medicines Agency(EMA) yet to formally approve its use. 14 countries will get shots produced by the Girona-based pharmaceutical firm once the likely green light is given by the EMA. Hipra says its protein-based vaccine will act as […]

AN 18-year-old man died on Tuesday after a late-night drinking session on a San Pedro del Pinatar beach turned to tragedy. Up to a dozen young people were on El Mojon beach at around 2.00 am when some of them decided to climb into a wooden watchtower used by lifeguards. The sheer number of them

THE Spanish government’s plan to invest €12 billion euros is struggling to get off the ground  thanks to a lack of chipmakers willing to take on the project. Spain’s new tech drive has received billions of euros of investment from the EUs Covid recovery fund in line with an EU target to produce a fifth

SPAIN’S Agriculture Minister, Luis Planas, says this summer’s hot weather will dent this year’s olive harvest if things don’t change soon. Spain is the world’s leading producer and exporter of olive oil, accounting for 15% of arable land in the country. It makes 70% of the EU’s olive oil and represents 46% of the worldwide

THE former mayor of Manilva, Antonia Muñoz, has been disqualified for nine years from holding public office following investigations into her so-called ‘favouritism network’. Her actions ‘created a network of voters that guaranteed the continuance in power of the ruling party at the time,’ according to the prosecutor’s office. The Provincial Court of Malaga handed

A Valencia Province computer scientist has been arrested for running an online business selling illegally-obtained sexual performance drugs. The Guardia Civil detained the man, 38, in Oliva. The drugs were imported from the Czech Republic and the man made payments via cryptocurrencies making it difficult to track the supplies. SEIZED PILLS Guardia cyber crime officers

A NEW official secrets law has been tabled by Pedro Sanchez’s government which could see classified state information kept out of the public domain for fifty years.  The draft bill has a clause allowing for redacting information relating to state actions if it would cause “exceptionally serious” problems for Spain’s national interest. The law would

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A family of seven was rescued after their pleasure boat overturned a mile off Santa Pola in Alicante Province. The Guardia Civil’s patrol boat, Rio Oja, was pressed into action after getting reports that a group of people were on top of a half-sunken craft. The Rio Oja spotted two men and three women, all

IT has only been the briefest of respites, but Spain is set to sizzle once again as the third heatwave of the summer reaches its climax on Tuesday. Spain’s weather agency AEMET issued heat warnings across almost all the country – with only Asturias in the north and Murcia in the southeast the regions in